Author: Edwin WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Thomas Hardy
Author: Claire TomalinPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101201924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.
Catalogue of the Dana Library
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338520643X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim LittellAristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
Author: K. D. ReynoldsPublisher: Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN: 9780198207276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the 19th century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court. Reynolds also shows that a partnership of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life, thus making an important contribution to the "separate spheres" debate. Moreover, she reveals in full the crucial role that these women played at all levels of political activity--from local communities to the national electoral process. The book is both a lively portrait of women's experiences in modern Britain and a corrective to the view of the upper-class Victorian woman as a passive social butterfly.
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